Derbyshire County Cricket Club (Derbyshire CCC) is an English domestic first-class cricket team based at the County Cricket Ground, previously known as the Racecourse Ground, in the city of Derby. Other first-class cricket grounds used in the past have included Chesterfield, Buxton, Ilkeston and Burton upon Trent, which is actually in Staffordshire. One-day contests have been played at Denby Dale and Knypersley.

The club joined the County Championship with three others – Essex, Hampshire and Warwickshire – in 1895. Although the county then had a quite strong team due to the bowling of George Davidson, Joseph Hulme and George Porter and the batting of William Storer, Chatterton and Bagshaw, within three years they had hit rock-bottom, going through 1897 without a win due to their best bowlers losing their powers.

From this point up to 1925, Derbyshire were perennially among the weakest counties, losing every single match in 1920. From 1926, the nucleus of a good team emerged around some doughty batting from Denis Smith, Stan Worthington and George Pope, and the bowling of Pope, his brother Alf, Tom Mitchell and Bill Copson took the team to their one and so far only Championship victory in 1936.

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